Relationships between smoking Habits and the Hypertension occurrence among the Adults of Communities in Paniai Regency, Papua Indonesia Kayame Robby1, Mallongi Anwar2 1Associate Professor, Institute Study Sosial dan Pastoral Enarotali Paniai, Papua 2Professor, Department Environmental Health, Faculty of Public Health, Hasanuddin University, Makassar Online published on 7 February, 2018. Abstract Hypertension is one of the leading causes of death in people in the world. The prevalence of hypertension has reached 31.7% of all residents. This increase is due to lifestyle changes that one of them smoking. The purpose of this study to determine the relationship between smoking habits including smoking, the number of cigarettes and types of cigarettes with hypertension. The research design is cross-sectional study. The number of subjects as many as 40 people taken in multi stage random sampling. Instruments in this study is a questionnaire for respondents’ data and characteristics of smoking habits, and sphygmomanometer to measure blood pressure. Data were analyzed by chi-square test with p <0, 05 for significance. The result showed that there was a correlation between smoking habit and hypertension (p = 0, 003) that was influenced by smoking time (p = 0, 017) and cigarette type (p = 0, 017), but there was no correlation between cigarette number and hypertension (p = 0, 412). Because smoking habits increase the risk of hypertension, health counseling about the risk of increased blood pressure to hypertensive sufferers who have smoking habits should be done. This is necessary in order to decrease the incidence of hypertension. There is a relationship between smoking with hypertension, smoking habits increase hypertension patients in paniai. Top Keywords hypertension, smoking habit, smoking duration, number of cigarettes, type of cigarette. Top |